Surreal paintings

Surreal Paintings Gallery.

These surreal paintings are a combination of imagination and improvisation. This makes them a combination of the two main forms of surrealism.

Most paintings in this gallery are for sale.

Limited edition prints are available on request.

Feel free to ring me on (02) 5698 5284, or email me (go to contact page) for offers or questions.

Blue $1250 Oil on canvas
100 * 75 cm

The Birds $850 Oil on Canvas 60 * 90 cm

As I Walk $1350
Oil on canvas 84 * 84 cm

The Supreme Nebula $3000 Oil on canvas 100 * 120 cm

Aquamarine $3000
100 * 150 cm Oil on canvas

Organizmo $1150 Oil on Canvas 80 * 100cm

Porcupine Pie $275 Oil and ink 42 * 29 cm

Hallucination $440 Mixed Media 60 * 45 cm

Immaterial Monoliths $290 Oil and ink 42 * 29 cm

Majesty $1,500 Oil on Canvas 59 * 59 cm

Emerging Joys $240 Mixed Media on Canvas 60 * 45 cm

Geo – Abstract $135
Oil on canvas 20 * 20 cm

Splash 45 * 60 cm Mixed Media on Canvas. Sold

Onward $750 Mixed Media on Canvas 90 * 60 cm

Fortunata $180 Mixed Media on Canvas
25 * 32.5 cm

Conjunction $1350 Oil on canvas 100 * 100 cm

Light and Space $950 Oil on canvas 100 * 75 cm

Cadenza 100 * 100 cm Sold Oil on canvas

Turnstyle $400 Mixed Media on Canvas 45 * 60 cm

Bird of Paradise $180 Mixed Media on Canvas

A Rift in Time $290 Mixed media on Canvas 50 * 60 cm

Eye 40 * 50 cm Oil on canvas Sold

Super Vortex $1880 Mixed Media on canvas 120 * 100 cm

Amoeba Nebula $180 Oil on Canvas 45 * 60 cm

Piazza $260 Mixed media on Canvas 40 * 40 cm

Deep Sea Epitaph $240 Oil on Board 40.5 * 30.5 cm

Little Cosmos 45 * 45 cm Mixed Media on Canvas Sold

The Young Fisherman’s Dream $1480 Oil on Canvas 112 * 112 cm

A Meeting of Worlds 45 * 60 cm Oil on Canvas Sold

Misbehaviour $275 Mixed media on canvas 28 * 39 cm

Holograph $125 Mixed Media on Canvas 16 * 22 cm

The Moose that Laid the Golden Egg 45 * 60 cm Mixed Media on Canvas Sold

Ornaments $550 Oil on Board 52 * 42 cm

Parade Float $1800 Mixed Media on Canvas 100 * 100 cm

Tower $350 Mixed Media on Canvas 50 * 60 cm

Stepped Landscape $250 Mixed media on Canvas 30 * 30 cm

Aeonians $225 Oil and Ink 42 * 29 cm

As Time Goes By 2 $155 Pencil on Paper 21.5 * 13.5 cm

The Window 40 * 40 cm Mixed Media on Canvas Sold

Utopian Junkyard $320 Oil on canvas 18 * 14.5 cm

When Landscapes Collide $290 Mixed Media 30 * 40 cm

Surreal Paintings

My surrealist works are wild and varied. Many are poetic representations of ideas or feelings which I have imagined or experienced. Others are based on dreams. Some of these works are just confections and closer to the realm of fantasy. Still others are purely improvised. These works begin with nothing more than the desire to paint. The paint goes on at random and the image grows and evolves. Often the concepts of these works evolve out of the process of painting. The use of space in my surrealist works is often ambiguous. Forms or areas of paint shimmer, moving backwards and forwards within the implied three dimensional plane of the painted surface. These shifting perspectives are like those moments of transformation within dreams where reality changes to unreality, or where scenes or meanings alter suddenly. The titles of these pieces are usually poetic and invite the viewer to observe the painting from their own perspective.

This gallery and the surreal mixed media gallery are the closest to an abstract art gallery on this site. I prefer my art to have some sort of figurative element, so as the viewer can find something solid from which an interpretation of a painting can be based. My surreal works are largely based around the landscape with spiritual and human elements creeping in (and hopefully out) of them. My fantasy art is probably best suited to the young or young at heart.

Porcupine-Pie

Surreal art paintings.

Surreal art paintings should evoke the workings of the subconscious mind. They should either remind one of dreams dreamt, or create a dreamlike state where the viewer can see things which may only be suggested by the forms in the surrealist paintings. In contrast an abstract art gallery would contain paintings which do not evoke suggested imagery. Purely non-representative art has another agenda altogether.

Fantastic art or fantasy art is another type of art once again. It has a stronger tendency toward the figurative, and is more like the work adorning science fiction and fantasy book covers. Surreal fantasy art falls somewhere between fantasy and surreal art – there will be elements of both types of art in it. True Surrealism art does not have to be dark, does not have to contain clear imagery, can be whimsical and comical and may even be able to unlock secrets within the mind of the viewer.

Some of my surreal art paintings are close to the realm of abstract art. The use of improvisation, coupled with increasingly more ethereal and less objective imagery has led to this. However, I hope to bring form back into my surreal paintings moe in the near future. Abstract art is more about the paintings process and traditional ideas about form and beauty. Surreal art paintings strive to express some meaning beyond the purely aesthetic.